Translation:Luca says:
This is quite complicated!! I ask our translators to turn the following made up language into English (it is incomplete seeing that I was unable to understand several words.)

The year of our Lord 1626, the 10th day of March.
Mattia Pacelli and Dianora of Paolo were joined in matrimony by me, Don Pietro...,
Dean of the Church of Santa Maria of San Salvatore (Telesino), and as they found some affinity in 2° level, favours were bestowed by the Holy Apostolic See (translation NOT literal).

... ... ... (incomprehensible piece) ... has the presence of Vincenzo Gammelluri of Telesino by me Dean, of the Church of San Salvatore, requested thier agreement and to the presence of Ottavio Pacello, Salvatore Verotto, Belardino Pallotta, Ottavio Rapuano, Giovanni Paolo
Gaetano and others were joined (in matrimony) as (stated) above, by then after a short preamble the publication of which the first was the 1° of the said month of March, the second on day 7, festival of San Tommaso d'Aquino, and the other the 8th, day of Sunday, and no impediment was found and by then the favours were bestowed from the 2° level of affinity as (said) above.

thanks to each of you, i am eternally grateful. i could hardly read the document much less translate. so many abbreviations. btw, this is the marriage record for my 9th great grandfather, the oldest i have been able to locate through church records. i was hoping to find whether it contained information regarding his father, it does not appear to unless ottavia is his father which i won't be able to verify.

Reading it again it does seem to be what we know as reading of the banns prior to a wedding. This states that the wedding plans were announced three times, on the 1st March, then then on the 7th day and again on the 8th day (of Sunday), though I'm not sure if that means the 7th and 8th day of the month or the 7th day after the first announcement followed by another 8 days later.

There is a reference >HERE< from Trafford R. Cole regarding marriages and weddings and the following link (below) is a calendar for March 1626 which, I think, might lean towards the 'three week' theory.

i was able to get so far back because of the help of others in this journey of three years. and the fact that my relatives seemed to like their hometown so much they didn't want to move for all of those generations. all i provided to the effort was my usual stubborness used to track them down. btw, with very little help from the relatives in that for 400 years they generally refused to follow the traditional naming pattern for first sons. they certainly made it more difficult. but then it wouldn't have been such a good challenge.

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